Humminbird 598ci HD SI Combo (Mark)

[Leo Nguyen]

Okay Mark, as discussed, here are a few things about your unit, which you want to know, and how to use:

Unit's info: http://www.humminbird.com/Products/598ci-HD-SI-Combo/

Unit's Manual: http://www.humminbird.com/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=3101

Unfortunately, not much on the unit's in term of videos. However, I know that unit pretty well, since it's merely an upgrade from mine.

What you're looking for is the Fish ID plus, to switch from arches for sonar return for fishes and structural info, to Fish ID icon and structural info.

If you want to turn the arch info into Fish ID icons, use pages 124 (Fish ID alarm) and 131 (Fish ID +, which needs to be on to have the alarm active) of the PDF manual To do this, do the following after turning the unit on:

1. Press Menu to activate menu screen.

2. Use your left-right arrow keys to select the 2nd tab called SONAR.

3. Use your up-down arrow keys to select Fish ID +. Turn it on.

4. Go back, and turn your Fish ID Sensitivity down a bit to either 5 or 6, to detect even the smallest, ground hugging fish. No more.

5. Use your up-down keys to move back to the tabs above, then left-right keys to move among the tabs. Now move your selection highlight back to #1 tab, which is ALARMS.

6. Use your up-down keys to get to Fish Alarms, and select all fish alarm icons.

Just a warning. Any fish, even at 1" length, will sound off the alarm for the smallest fish indicator. That means if it detects weeds that may appear to be fishes, it will return back a false positive. I normally select between medium and large for my Fish ID alarm. This way, anything above 5 inches and above to return back, with very minimal return of negative results.

[Leo Nguyen]

Exactly. The GPS on the phone (as long as you use the internal GPS and not based on phone's triangulation using cell towers), will provide a bit more accuracy. Smartphones nowadays are using higher level GPS receiver than the fishfinder GPS circuit boards. However, higher end fishfinder actually utilize a much higher end GPS receiver than the older models' Sirf I and II series. They're utilizing the high end Sirf IV and MKT chipsets that will provide +/- 15ft of accuracy, when there are at least 5 satellites to base the average from. The older ones, even with 5 satellites, you still get that +/- X miles of poor accuracy.

Smartphones don't mean they're smart. Smartphones means you have to provide ideal conditions for them to be smart.

[dick tabbert]

How to dropshot using electronics.

http://youtu.be/-c7vklooZq4

[Mark Sleeper]

thank you Dick for the post

[dick tabbert]

Mark I have never done drop shoting. I would love to get out and try it but my schedule hasn't allowed me the option as of yet. It is very interesting and sounds like a very productive way to catch fish. Of course on the video's I've been posting its there job to make it look easy and productive and they have got my full attention.

[dick tabbert]

How to read a fish finder

http://youtu.be/8155r8G5Eqw

[Mark Sleeper]

Thanks for the post Dick

[dick tabbert]

Your welcome kind sir. Just trying to find some interesting a knowledgeable info for the finders. There is so much out there with so many different skill levels and improving all the time.